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You don't fire someone for potentially iffy cause if you can just lay them off due to budget cutbacks. One is majorly lawyer-uppable and the other mostly isn't. I've managed hiring/firing and this is a no-brainer. Also, if you have a choice as to firing someone for cause over poor job performance as opposed to political controversy, you always go with poor performance, which will be harder to defeat in court. Firing someone for political expression on their own time is the fastest way to lawsuits and bad publicity. 2. Her boss, on the other hand, could just be a dick. But no, she got fired, so she must have deserved it. I think a lot of employers wait until they have a tangible reason to fire an undesired employee instead of just firing them for general work performance for their own peace of mind.

If this woman was a valued employee she wouldnt have been fired. "If this woman was a valued employee she wouldnt have been fired.
" Total bullshit.
Fired NPR host sees "McCarthyism" - Occupy Wall Street. UPDATED BELOW Lisa Simeone, host of two cultural programs on National Public Radio, was fired from one of her positions last night for her leading role in the Freedom Plaza occupation in Washington, D.C.

The proximate cause was a series of blogs posts in the Daily Caller asserting that she had violated NPR’s code of ethics, an allegation which Simeone denies. “It overblown. Everyone’s overreacting,” Simeone told Salon in a phone interview. “It’s like McCarthyism.” Simeone, a former weekend host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” show, had not worked directly for the network since 2002. [UPDATE 2:35 pm.
Occupy DC Spokeswoman. It is still unclear what, if any, action National Public Radio will take to handle the ethics violations of one of its member stations’ employees, Lisa Simeone.

Simeone, who is technically a contract employee for Charlotte, North Carolina public radio station WDAV, has broken NPR’s ethics policy by acting as a spokeswoman for Occupy DC group “October 2011” — the group currently “occupying” Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. NPR spokeswoman Anna Christopher told The Daily Caller the radio network is considering taking action. “We’re in conversations with WDAV about how they intend to handle this,” Christopher said in an email.
NYT: Bonuses Worthy of Protest for Gannett and Tribune Executives. To Catch a Journalist: New York Times, Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky. Lefty journalism professor tries to discredit the Tea Party by passing along sensational footage to his buddies at the Times!!!
Audax. Audax is in 1958 opgericht door de Tilburger Jacques de Leeuw.

Will Nolan's 'Dark Knight Rises' occupy Wall Street?
"The Dark Knight Rises," Christopher Nolan's third film in the Batman trilogy, has been shooting in Los Angeles in recent weeks. But the Christian Bale-led production is now set to make a trip to New York and could be heading to a fraught locale: the Occupy Wall Street protests. Under its code name "Magnus Rex," the Warner Bros.
/Legendary Pictures production will arrive in the nation's biggest city for 14 days starting Oct. 29, according to a casting notice recently issued by producers.
The Occupied Times special issue #nov9. Occupy Protest Shuts Down Harvard Yard. GSAS student Marissa M. Egertsrom teaches the basics of "General Assemblies" while facilitating a conversation Wednesday night on the Law School campus.

UPDATED 4:34 a.m. 11/10/11 A tent city was hastily constructed in front of University Hall Wednesday night during a tense dialogue between “Occupy Harvard” protesters and Dean of Student Life Suzy M. Nelson.
Why We Need Occupy Harvard. I didn’t expect to support Occupy Harvard.
Spanish government accused of purging critics from national radio and TV. A government making a raft of public spending cuts might not be expected to win many friends.

But critics of Mariano Rajoy's rightwing Partido Popular (PP) claim that a series of departures from Spain's leading state broadcasting organisations are a sign that it will not tolerate any criticism. A number of journalists who have presumed to question the administration's austerity policy have been purged from the national RTVE radio and TV channel. And this weekend the most high-profile exit in recent months – that of Ana Pastor, the presenter of Los Desayunos de TVE, a popular breakfast news magazine programme – was announced.
NOSop 3 - Spaanse presentatrice ontslagen want `te kritisch´
Maandag 6 aug 2012 Ana Pastor interviewt Spaanse politicus José ZapateroLa Moncloa/Flickr/ CC- BY-NC Stel je voor: de Nederlandse regering zorgt ervoor dat Nieuwsuur-presentatrice Mariëlle Tweebeeke wordt ontslagen omdat haar interviews te streng en te kritisch zouden zijn.

Niet iets dat past bij een democratie, maar dit lijkt nu wel te gebeuren in Spanje.
Hackgate, power elites and the limits of the “corruption” critique. A Leak of Their Own - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/06. Murdoch / Phone Hacking Scandal. 2013: The Year the BBC Looked Like a Bogus Signer. One of the most significant events of 2013 was the memorial for Nelson Mandela, marred by the bogus interpreter, who made random movements while standing alongside those paying tribute. The BBC covered Mandela's death and the aftermath extensively - as we would hope for one of the great figures of the 20th Century. It also took delight in reporting on fake signer Thamsanqa Jantjie.
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While everyones gaze is diverted. US media yet again conceals newsworthy government secrets. The Lost Signal of Democracy - Short Trailer.